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Subject: Re: At what point will computer vs computer elo be all that matters???

Author: Duncan Roberts

Date: 15:47:00 12/18/04

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On December 18, 2004 at 17:13:36, Derek Paquette wrote:

>By reputation alone, I can say that
>
>Hiarcs 9
>Deep Fritz 8
>Junior series
>
>are all great programs vs humans,
>
>I can also say that by reputation alone,
>
>Shredder 8 is not as good vs humans as it is vs computers,
>
>So I have to ask the question, at what point will there be no distinctive
>difference between the two?  If Shredder 9 comes onto the market and stomps
>other programs like both its predecessors, why would it not stomp humans just
>the same?  Its obviously outmanouvering other programs, what is so different
>about its style that is almost "transparent" to humans


just guessing that this would be explained if  computer  A has a weakness that
only a human can exploit, but not another computer but computer A can search
deeper than all other computers.

duncan



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